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CJRLC Newsletter
Archives
September 2004
C J R L C UPDATE
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Region
News
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of Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, serving
Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean Counties |
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2005-02 |
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Leading from Any
Position
Any
library staff person in a management or team leader role is eligible to
apply for a program new to NJ: Leading from Any Position, taught by
Becky Schreiber and John Shannon. It is a two day course with a one day
follow-up.
There are two opportunities for 2004. The first is
October 12 and 13 at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center in
New Brunswick. Lodging for October 12 will be provided if desired.
Or you may be part of a four state program in MD on
October 14 and 15. Lodging for October 13 and 14 is included. Evening
meals and travel are paid by participants and/or their libraries.
For either session, the registration the lodging, and
meals during the program are provided by a grant from the NJ State
Library with funds from LSTA!
The agenda for the program is on CJRLC’s website.
Click on the link in the Spotlight. Registration information is also on
the web.
John Shannon and Becky Schrieber at NJALL.
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You an Emerging Leader? |
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Do you
know a new librarian who could benefit from a head start into
leadership? NJLA’s Emerging Leaders program is beginning its third
session of courses for 2004-2005. The five day program meets monthly
October to March and seeks to orient new librarians (3 years experience
or less) to NJ librarianship. The cost is $50 plus the commitment to
serve on an NJLA committee or section the following year.
The first session begins October 28 at Jackson
Branch, Ocean Co. Library with Kathleen Carr and True Colors. December 8
we will visit the NJ State Library and the State Legislature and meet
the NJLA officers. January 6 we meet at Monroe Twp PL for Effective
Presentations and Selling Yourself. February 3 we visit Mt. Laurel PL
for Trading Spaces and Effective Committee Meetings; March 3 is
Leadership and graduation at Monroe Twp. PL.
Register with NJLA and include a statement of support
from your library. Great opportunity! See www.njla.org
to register.
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Hold the Date! Our Fall
Membership Meeting will be on Thursday, November 18 at
Battleground Country Club, 3:30-5:30.
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Welcome
to our new librarians or librarians in new places!
George
Conwell, new director at Hamilton Township Free Public
Library;
Patty Scott, new director at Neptune City Public Library;
Nelson Oliva, East Trenton Branch Library;
Lori Novis, now at Skelton Branch Library, Trenton PL;
George Chalfa, Monmouth County Audio Visual Aids Commission;
Amy Mandat, Rumson Country Day School;
Lisa Belknap, Times (Trenton) Library;
Leslie Lanphear, Reed Smith LLP (new voting rep).
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Yet Another Reference
Skills Workshop has been added on November 16 at Princeton
Public Library, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm; cost $30. Register at CJRLC.
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Friends of
the Upper Shores Branch Library are sponsoring a trip to
lunch and the play “Meshuggah-Nuns” on September 15. Cost $51. Call
Teddy at 732-830-3363 for information or to reserve your tickets.
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Are Your Patrons
Fishing for a Good Story?
Want to
help them catch the perfect book? Then come to Reader's
Advisory Service in Libraries on October 18, 2004, at
Monmouth County Library, Manalapan Branch, presented by the NJLA
Reference Section. The program is from 10:00 - 3:30, registration starts
at 9:30 am. Speakers include Bonnie Kunzel and Roz Reisner, both authors
of Readers’ Advisory reference books; Sue Roth, from Princeton PL; and
C.L. Quillen from Ocean County Lib.
Learn why Readers’ Advisory service is more
important than ever, master techniques for talking to patrons about
books, learn about practical services that other NJ libraries are
providing, and take part in a genre study. The workshop is designed to
provide theory and practice! There will be handouts to help you get
going when you return to your library, a raffle of Readers’ Advisory
books from Libraries Unlimited, and lunch is included.
The program description and registration form are
available on the NJLA Web site, www.njla.org.
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President
Linda Greenwood
Manchester Township
High School
Vice
President
Ingrid Bruck
Long Branch Public
Library
Secretary
Mary Ann Fox
The Hun School
Treasurer
Larry McNamara
Mercer County Library
Members
Karen Black
WW-P Community
Middle School
Cathy Boss
Jersey Shore Medical
Center
John Glace
Ocean County Library
Agatha Grady
Toms River Intermediate
School East
Karen Klapperstuck
Bradley Beach Public Library
Robert Lackie
Rider University
Karen Moench
Monmouth County
Library
Jean Schoenthaler
Monmouth University
Gloria Stravelli
Lay Representative
Karen Topham
Brookdale Community
College
John Woolf
Lay Representative
Executive
Director and Update Editor
Connie Paul
connie@cjrlc.org
Contributing Editor
Rosalind Reisner
roz@cjrlc.org
(732) 409-6484
1-800-316-2518
Fax: (732) 409-6492
www.cjrlc.org
www.becomealibrarian.org
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Highlights from
the Information Literacy Program July 21:
Early Literacy
All three
strands of the program got rave reviews: Dawn Popoff, Monmouth U. and
Barbara Herbert, Georgian Ct. U., led a discussion of what colleges
wished incoming freshmen knew. Rosalind Reisner, CJRLC, Lisa Force,
Eisenhower MS, and Betty Carhart, Lanoka Harbor ES, demonstrated the use
of databases for middle and elementary school students.
The third
strand was on Emergent Literacy and was led by Bonnie Kunzel, NJ State
Library, Jan Johnson, Princeton PL, and Cindy Czesak, Paterson PL. That
session focused on what current brain research is telling us about
learning to read. Here are some highlights of that session:
The
Public Library Association (PLA) and ALSC, the Assn for Library Service
to Children, divisions of ALA, have created a website with a
wealth of material for libraries to use. Many materials can
be downloaded for free. Videos in English and Spanish can be ordered, as
can the entire training kit. Trainers can also be hired to come to your
library. This program emphasizes the importance of reading 20 minutes a
day to children as soon as they are born. It encourages parents to spend
one on one time reading to their children. It discusses the six kinds of
readiness children need before learning to read, with specific steps in
teaching.
Research
shows that different parts of the brain are used for hearing,
comprehending, speaking, and responding. It also shows that a child who
has been regularly read to comes to kindergarten with a 40,000 word
vocabulary, as contrasted to a child who has not been read to with a
10,000 word vocabulary. Those early experiences are very difficult to
compensate for. And the brain is best ready to learn at age 0-3!
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World Language
StoryTelling:
A Diversity, Literacy,
Recruiting Pilot Project
Bottom
Line: We think this program had an enormous impact in our region by
encouraging libraries to reach outside their comfort range. We hope it
will be replicated often and expanded! Read the complete report
and much more.
CJRLC received a grant from
the New Jersey State Library for $20,000 to offer a pilot program in
World Language Storytelling from January to June, 2004. Each
participating library received $2000 to conduct an 8 week program in a
language important in its community. The library would hire a bilingual
student to get some training, tell the stories weekly, work with the
children’s librarian, and advertise the program in the community.
Our Executive Board voted to
contribute $18,000 to the project so that a total of 18 projects could
be funded. Nine languages were chosen (10 sessions in Spanish and one
session each in Arabic, Chinese, Creole, French, German, Hindi,
Japanese, and Portuguese.)
Among other things, we
learned:
 Reaching
out to an unserved or underserved population is slow going. Initial
efforts don’t pay off as quickly as we would like. Most libraries plan
to continue and expand their efforts.
It
was optimistic to expect the program to be done as quickly as we
planned.
Libraries
reported a wide range of satisfaction in working with their
storytellers, most of whom were students.
Ordering
the non-Spanish materials took longer than we expected. (For lists, and
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 Time
to sign up for...
Mental Health
Issues and the Library Patron
Would
you like some help understanding and coping with difficult patron
behaviors in your library? A joint CJRLC-Monmouth Librarians program
can help you out! Come to “Mental Health Issues & Library
Patrons: Identifying Behaviors, Creating Strategies,” a FREE
workshop led by Debbie Kinney-Chen from the Mental Health Association in NJ
on Thursday, October 14th, from 9:00 am -12:00 at Monmouth County
Library, Manalapan.
Debbie
will discuss how to recognize various mental health conditions and
provide strategies for coping with them in a library setting. This
workshop is free but you must call CJRLC to register — space is
limited.
EBSCOhost
Admin training
September 30th is your chance to learn to customize EBSCOhost for your
library, get some tips on search strategies, and learn about new
features. David Brisendine, from EBSCO will run two free hands-on
classes at the CJRLC lab. Choose from 2:00 - 3:30 or 4:00 - 5:30 and call the
office to register.
SIRS
Training
Tune up
your SIRS searching skills with a class from our SIRS rep Deb
Bergeron. Sign up for one of two free sessions at CJRLC on Tuesday,
October 19th, from 12:30 - 2:30 or 3:00 - 5:00.
HouseCalls
You’re
back from vacation and now it’s time to schedule Roz to come out for
a visit. You know you could use a refresher on the free databases.
Call the office or email Roz at roz@cjrlc. It doesn’t hurt a bit and
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Phyllis’
Fabulous Finds for September |
The African Presence in the Americas:
1492-1992
http://www.si.umich.edu/
CHICO/Schomburg/
Best of History Web Sites
http://www.besthistorysites.
net/index.shtml
Biodiversity Hotspots
http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/
Cool Math
http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm
EpistemeLinks.com - Philosophy
Resources on the Web
http://www.epistemelinks.com/
The Flying Turtle
http://www.ftexploring.
com/index.html
http://www.ftexploring.com/
links/ed-links.html
The iLumina Digital Library:
Educational Resources for Science and Mathematics
http://turing.bear.uncw.edu
/ilumina/index.asp
The Invisible Library
http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/
Mostly Medieval
http://www.skell.org/
Mr. William Shakespeare & the
Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American
High Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Salem Witchcraft Hysteria
http://www.nationalgeographic
.com/features/97/salem/
The WWW Virtual Library: Latin American
Network Information Center
http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
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Phyllis Anker
anker@hslc.org
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the Newsletter archives for
live links to Phyllis's past finds. |
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The two NJ Chapters of the
Special Library Association invite you to “Innovating
for Success” with Pat Wagner on Thursday, September 30, 6:00
pm, at the Rutgers Club in New Brunswick. The cost is $22 for
non-members, which includes dinner and the presentation. Call CJRLC
and we will fax you a registration form. Deadline is 9/24.
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Youth Services
Forum Oct 4th
This year’s Youth
Services Forum focuses on hot topics and issues, from homeschooling to
the impact of school libraries on student scores. Central Jersey
Region librarians June Schneider, Kim Bravo, and Ingrid Bruck will
report on our bilingual storytelling grant. It’s a fun day and it’s
in our Region — at Monmouth County Library, Manalapan, from
9:00-3:00. The
registration form is on the NJLA and
NJ State Library
web sites.
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Hold these
dates!
On Friday,
November 19 Kathy Schrock will be honored as the Rutgers
SCILS Alumna of the Year. Colloquium 4:00 pm and dinner at 6:00 pm. More
info to follow...
December
2-4 is the EMAnj Fall Conference at the East Brunswick
Hilton. Registration must be paid by October 30. See the EMAnj
web site.
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Sept. 8:
Reference Skills Workshop, Monmouth County Library HQ, 9:00 am
- 3:30 pm; FILLED; see page 1.
Sept. 14: NetLibrary meeting,
10:00 am -12:00 noon, CJRLC.
Sept. 21: TechGroup meeting,
CJRLC; CANCELLED.
Sept. 23: CJRLC Executive Board
Meeting, 3:30, CJRLC.
Sept. 30: EBSCO Admin Training,
2:00-3:30 or 4:00-5:30, CJRLC; free; call to register.
Sept. 30: Princeton Trenton SLA
and NJSLA Joint Program; Pat Wagner on Innovation; Rutgers
Club, 6:00 pm, non-members $22; all welcome; see page 3.
Oct 1: Book Eval, Neptune
PL, 9:00 am -1:00 pm; call Cheryl Otten.
Oct. 1-2: NJ Library Trustee
Institute, Ocean Place, Long Branch
Oct. 4: Youth Services Forum,
Monmouth County Library, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Oct. 12-13 or
14-15: Leading
from any Position; see page 1.
Oct. 14: Monmouth Librarians
and CJRLC program, “Mental Health Issues and the Library Patron”,
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Getting to Know...
Susana Baumann
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CJRLC
Region members who attended our Spanish language classes have already
had the pleasure of meeting Susana and learning what a talented teacher
she is. What they may not know about her is the interesting and varied
background that she brings to her classes.
Susana
grew up in Argentina, where she was an architect and university
professor. In 1990 she emigrated to the U.S. where she soon found an
outlet for her language skills as an editor and marketing manager for a
Latin American art magazine.
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She then
took a position as Account Executive and Spanish Language Manager for a
multicultural advertising firm in NYC, which specialized in the
development of marketing strategies in over 80 different languages.
Translation and consulting work for the NJ State Dept. of Health and
Senior Services followed. She was also the publisher of an excellent
bilingual newspaper Periodico Latino.
Susana’s
understanding of the needs of the multicultural market led to her next
venture, LCSWorldwide Language and Cultural Services, which offers
Spanish language education, cultural training, and marketing services.
We’ve
enjoyed getting to know Susana this past year and hope our members will
take advantage of her expertise as they reach out to their Latino
communities.
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